“I haven’t done much; swam a bit, read a thing or two, loved nothing. It was not a time of poverty, though. I had to dig around and accustom myself to the sight of corpses. Worse than the lack of achievement was the fact that a lot was started. Oh well,...
“I say see it to believe it. Ghosts shows up to some people, and some people they don’t. But I’m not scared of ’em. I’m more scared of live. But hags, that’s real. When you get to old age, you turn a hag. Hags come to your house and...
“In that most attractively adhesive of Russian novels, Oblomov, the protagonist devotes his life to finding more and better reasons for not getting out of bed. He finally stops going to the coffeehouse to see his friends because he knows that they will want to...
